Actor NICHOLAS SMITH, best known for playing Mr Cuthbert Rumbold in BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, died on December 6 aged 81. His TV roles included parts in Doctor Who, The Frost Report, The Saint and The Avengers and mre recently, he was the voice of the eccentric Reverend Clement Hedges in Wallace & Gromit film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).